
Chichester Canal
1828 · Tate Modern, London
Masts stand black against a sky going from gold to soft blue, and almost nothing else in the picture is solid.
★ 6.1

Masts stand black against a sky going from gold to soft blue, and almost nothing else in the picture is solid.

Eden on one side of the rock arch, blasted wilderness on the other, and Cole lets the landscape carry the entire moral argument.

An old man on two sticks, with Aun aprendo written underneath. Goya drew it in exile and failing health, near the end.